William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond

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LSU Press, 01.12.1989 - 464 Seiten

In this companion volume to William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country, Cleanth Brooks takes an in-depth look at Faulkner's early poetry and prose as well as his five non-Yoknapatawpha novels -- Soldiers Pay, Mosquitoes, Pylon, The Wild Palms, and A Fable. Brooks also offers relevant clarification of some of his earlier interpretations of Faulkner that have been challenged -- most notably in the case of Faulkner that have been challenged -- most notable in the case of Absalom, Absalom!, which he considers Faulkner's greatest novel. Recognizing that the creative and imaginative center of Faulkner's art is Yoknapatawpha County, Brooks examines the merits of each of the works set beyond these boundaries and explores how these writings complement Faulkner as an artist. He sheds light on the literary sources that influenced Faulkner's early work and the technical innovations and general themes Faulkner was to develop in his later writing. The notes and appendixes with which Brooks concludes Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond serve only to amplify this comprehensive study.

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Faulkners Poetry
1
Early Romantic Prose
32
A Payment Deferred Soldiers Pay
67
Sketches Early Stories and an Abortive Novel
100
A Fine Volley of Words Mosquitoes
129
First Forays into Yoknapatawpha County
152
People Without a Past Pylon
178
A Tale of Two Innocents The Wild Palms
205
Mans Fate and Mans Hope A Fable
230
Faulkner on Time and History
251
A Representative Southern Planter?
283
B The Narrative Structure of Absalom Absalom
301
Faulkner and W B Yeats
329
Notes
345
Index
431
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Cleanth Brooks (1906--1994) was born in Kentucky, and educated at Vanderbilt, Tulane, and Oxford where he was a Rhodes scholar. He began his teaching career at Louisiana State University in 1932. To many minds, Brooks is the archetypal New Critic, the man whose catch phrases, critical studies, and college textbooks epitomized New Critical ideas, practice, and pedagogy.

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